Young Adult Fiction Pioneer S.E. Hinton on Fifty Years of The Outsiders by Darryn King

One afternoon in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960s, a 15-year-old student at Will Rogers High School named Susan Hinton"her close friends called her Suzie"witnessed a friend being attacked by a gang of boys on his way home from school. That was how things were in Suzie's rough, working-class neighborhood, where rival social groups stalked the streets. "Going to the prom, the big suspense was who got the liquor and how th…

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